# Songs that seem like they should be longer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269 "2007-07-26T19:08:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/21 "2007-07-27T11:14:40Z")
The powerful title track from Gregg Allman’s fourth solo album, _I’m No Angel_, has always left me unsatisfied and longing for one more verse. Another verse would not lenghten the song, either – it lingers and fades quite a while at the end. I feel that song needs the completion of a final verse. The song is worth saving. It is autobiographical, for one. Cher opened her concerts with it when it was current. She and he had been married in the 70’s. I’m No Angel is a two-legged stool, and needs that third verse. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/22 "2007-07-27T11:19:15Z")
Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix. ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/23 "2007-07-27T11:42:12Z")
I’m on FIre, by Bruce Springsteen, is just crying out to be longer. **McNew** is right - it ends just as it gets going. ---
**Author:** ![smitzblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@smitzblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smitzblitz)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/24 "2015-05-06T22:47:48Z")
I’m Only Sleeping by the Beatles isn’t even 3 minutes but it fits in a lot ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/25 "2015-05-07T00:34:24Z")
_This Thread_ by **The Dopers**. Only a couple dozen verses, but you wish it could go on for eight years. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/26 "2015-05-07T00:58:36Z")
**Take the Money and Run** feels like it’s missing a few verses between “Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas” and “Bobby Sue, oh she slipped away”. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/27 "2015-05-07T01:20:51Z")
[Don’t Get 2 Close to My Fantasy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEj9zEt_cs) by Ween. Has a totally epic sweep in just over 200 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/28 "2015-05-07T02:09:17Z")
[Be Kind to Your Web Footed Friends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uedyba2UWv0), obviously. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/29 "2015-05-07T05:01:39Z")
> [@some\_white\_dude](#): > > [This song](http://youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA) pushes five minutes, but it feels closer to an eternity. Good lord, are you posting from 2007 or something??? Oh…wait. [“There She Goes Again”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1M_HThkm4) by Marshall Crenshaw sounds like it should have an extra verse or two, or at least some kind of guitar solo. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/30 "2015-05-07T05:06:41Z")
99 Bottles of Beer ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/31 "2015-05-07T06:18:17Z")
[Tea for the Tillerman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHlo_N34vuo) by Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam, of course). I love the way it ends, but wish there was more leading up to it. ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/32 "2015-05-07T09:40:19Z")
I always felt that Pink Floyd’s Echoes could do with a few minutes more padding. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/33 "2015-05-07T14:43:40Z")
> [@Aghris](#): > > I always felt that Pink Floyd’s Echoes could do with a few minutes more padding. Padding? PADDING? That song is perfection! Well, maybe that one note at the beginning is too much. Now the Allman brothers Mountain Jam, now there’s a song that needs more. First time I heard it, it came up in rotation. 20 minutes into it and I’m wondering if it ever is going to end, and I see I have nearly a half hour to go! ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/34 "2015-05-07T15:22:01Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > _Happiness Is a Warm Gun_, by the Beatles. This. Especially the first part, before the doo wop girls chime in. I’d like to add Vaseline by Stone Temple Pilots. My heart just gets pumping and then…done. May I digress since I’m now thinking of the Beatles White album? Why do I have to turn up the volume to maximum for the song Long, Long, Long and it’s still not loud enough? Such a great tune and I want to crank it up. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/35 "2015-05-07T16:54:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > **Take the Money and Run** feels like it’s missing a few verses between “Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas” and “Bobby Sue, oh she slipped away”. Completely agree with this, and it lessens the quality of the song, IMHO. One of the few songs where I’ve paid attention to the lyrics and was thinking, “And then what happened?” I always thought Blur’s _[Song 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk)_ should have been longer. Maybe though it’s perfect as it is? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/36 "2015-05-07T21:58:09Z")
_The Letter_. The Box Tops’ version was under two minutes. Somehow Joe Cocker managed to make it twice as long. ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/37 "2015-05-07T22:21:28Z")
abacab by Genesis, it gets into a killer guitar solo at the end and just fades out ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/38 "2015-05-08T01:09:36Z")
At 1:38 _Little Deuce Coupe_ should be longer. C’mon Brian, couldn’t you have thought of one or two more verses? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/39 "2015-05-08T15:20:18Z")
Many of the early hardcore punk songs from bands like Black Flag and Minor Threat. Lots of pure energy songs clocking in at a minute. Prime example: Wasted by Black Flag. Around 50 seconds depending on the recording. Maybe they would’ve lost something if they tried to make them “long” by adding verses to get them out to 2 minutes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269/40 "2015-05-08T15:56:36Z")
As was answered back in 2007, the answer is _Little Wing_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-seem-like-they-should-be-longer/413269.md?page=3)